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https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-08-31/17-guardsmen-have-died-on-gov-greg-abbotts-controversial-border-mission-soldiers-speak-out

“When we requested that we stop training because someone had died … we were told to 'shut the f— up, sit there and keep doing your job' as if nothing happened,” the guard member told TPR. “We had made a request for chest seals, trauma supplies like tourniquets — stuff like that. … We were told that there was 'no need for those supplies at this time.' So they were denied. … This is immediately following a servicemember being shot in the back and dying.”

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

michael-laugh holy fucking shit these are worse casualties than those dickheads hiding behind gabions on bases in Iraq who actually get attacked. how are these people so fucking incompetent that dudes in their own borders, not under fire, glorified campers are dying

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Lmaoooooo these are fucking gold! One guy accidentally got shot in the back of the head from the US side. Another drowned. A third accidentally shot himself playing with his gun.

Then there's some piggie complaining about the living conditions and not being able to see his family. Just have them bring you a tent you're on US soil lollolooool

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Vaxxed? Fentanyl?

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

the complaints are gold, oh no they don't have bodyarmor? whatever will these not-getting-shot-at guys do? no hot food? are they too fucking dense to set a fire? they're out here getting paid ridiculous money to wander around and dig fences 10 minutes from a taco bell and they're so nonplussed by it they're claiming to get PTSD

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

No no no you don't understand....it takes three grown ass men armed with fully automatic weapons to guard a section of razorwire set up along a river bed in case of a potential attack child making its way across the spot where their buddy died and destroying the Taco Bell with a tactical nuke developed by ISIS. Don't let the terrorists win!

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Legit question for rural Americans: what if 30-50 feral children cross the river into my county while my hogs are playing?

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Chinese and Indian soldiers at least get to kill each other in medieval combat. These guys are dying from doing nothing lol

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

He said that he would stay on the border for as long as he was needed there — that’s what he’ll do to serve.

How do you put your helmet on over the horns when you're so incredibly cucked.

"The biden admin argues the border is under federal control" jesus fucking christ is is one one of the most basic things in the constitution. The president controls the border. It's not in question.

Bunch of fucking dorks. Imagine, fucking imagine, putting up with deployed big army bullshit in texas because Greg Abbot feels threatened by apparently the roofing and cabbage industries or some unhinged fascist bs.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I recall most illegal immigration in the US happens by plane, gun trafficking uses legally bought guns, and drug trafficking happens through multiple channels and not just the border lol

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, as far as I know that all tracks.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

Sucks to find out your actual value in the middle of your service, but you chose to fight for the great satan

If you come at me about how there's no better choices in poor neighbourhoods but to join the genocide on the side of genocide, feel free to enlist

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

officer-down

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Get over it losers and suckers

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

So they’re not even dying in epic shootout with cartel soldiers? Literally just dying while doing pushups in the scorching with no legal requirement for breaks?

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

new republican attack ad right there: Communist dictator Kamaola Harristler is allowing brave american soldiers to die defending our freedom, homes, and our wives and daughters from the swarming illegal aliens with her open border policy

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Only 17 Guardsmen dead? That must have been a calm morning roll-call

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

10 claims were submitted from before the Evans Act was passed. Four were approved, though one wasn’t paid because there was no eligible survivor to receive the benefits.

bleak.